Hello everyone! I just got six chicks that were supposed to be sexed females. They are for a school project. Two of them are buff orpingtons, each in two separate groups. The groups are split three and three, one for organic chick feed and the other for name brand feed. I have two observations...
I came out to let my chickens out and saw this around my Silkies vent. Any idea what it is and how to get it off? My only guess is an egg that had no she'll when it came out.
Hello everyone. I have a RIR rooster who will be one year old tomorrow. He's been acting very odd for the past month or so. It started when his crow became more hoarse and raspy but also getting shorter by the day until he stopped about two weeks ago. Right around when he stopped crowing he had...
So I brought a welsummer pullet home along with two others, a barred rock and silver laced Wyandotte. A day or so after I brought them home I noticed my welsummer had stuff coming out of her nostrils. It appeared as if she was trying to breathe through her mouth as well. I brought home the new...
He's a very nice rooster. Almost fully grown, he's been in great health and never had any medical issues. The pictures show his feathers have been pulled out and comb has scabs all over it. That is from my dominant RIR rooster. My BA rooster is very nice and deserves his own hens where he can...
Hello everyone! So this is a big project that will be coming up in roughly a month and half or so. In one of my classes in high school we are doing a final project that can be anything in any field of science within reason. Last semester someone in the same class did something with ducklings. So...
Hello everyone! I just went outside to let my chickens out and I noticed something hanging from one hens vent. It's quite long, about 4-6 inches. The bottom is dark I think because it has been touching the dirt and mud. However, the part closest to her vent is a color between a creamy yellow and...
A hawk attacked and killed one of my hens this morning in their run. My RIR rooster was walking around the run with five other hens as the hawk was eating my poor hen. My BA rooster was in the coop with my Silkie hens, seeming as if he was protecting them. What am I to make of my RIR rooster...
Hello everyone! Where I live recently we've gotten two straight days of rain. While the temperatures at night haven't been bad, they're going to drop off quickly in the next week from mid 40's* to the low 20's*. In the not to far off future, the Weather Channel is predicting snow or rain during...
Hello everyone! This spring, in March, I'm going to be getting 12 chicks and my plan is to raise them from the coop starting on day one. I know they need a heat lamp and in the design I need a place where the heat lamp can be in one corner. Until I make my final selections for breeding purposes...
I am looking for heritage bantam brahmas, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Silkies and barred rocks. The colors for the Wyandottes and brahmas could be any. Please PM as soon as possible.
I've had eggs with a little bit of poop on them, sometimes a lot covering the whole side. When I went out tonight to collect eggs about 4 or 5 of them had blood mixed in in. Most of them were Silkie eggs however this one is from my RIR's or BA's. This was one of the worst looking. Can someone...
I wanted to ask what breed of bantam is best at laying eggs. Specifically what the size of the eggs are and how often they lay, number eggs per week/year. I want to try and breed an RIR rooster over Silkie hens in the spring for bantam egg production but I wanted to know if there was a better...
He is 32 weeks old. He is an extremely friendly rooster and will always walk up to us when we're sitting in the yard with all the other chickens. I need to get rid of him because he is being attacked by my older RIR rooster. He also deserves his own girls as I know he would be an excellent flock...
I've been dwelling on this thread for awhile now, mostly because I didn't want to start it and then have a drastic change in the members of my flock. I want this thread to be a place for people to share their own mixed flocks as well as any cross breeders to come have fun. I will also be posting...
Hello everyone! I was scrolling around through here and found something called a chicken calculator. I googled it and found this http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
Can anyone help figure out how to use this because it looks really complicated.
I have a Silkie hen who.p I have separated for an injury laid an egg this morning but there was an extremely thin shell and it collapsed. The yolk was visible and coming out one side of the shell. What is this and what does it mean?
I noticed tonight that one of my Silkie hens has a large gash on her side. As it goes under her left wing the skin begins to peel off to the point where it is a flap of skin around 1/8" inch thick at the base of the tear. I have already cleaned her sound with hydrogen peroxide and put neosporin...